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  • Online Courses Growing, For Better or For Worse

    Regardless of the disapproval from some academic officials, online learning is a phenomenon that is continuing to grow quickly and does not look like it will dissipate any time soon. New figures released by the College Board in…

  • FTC Raises Fist Against ERG Ventures

    About a week after Zango settled with the Federal Trade Commission for $3 million concerning its adware installation procedures, the FTC has its eyes set on a similar battle with ERG Ventures and Timothy P. Taylor, one of its…

  • Cheerios Puts Books in 5 Million Boxes

    General Mills said today that it is repeating its Spoonful of Stories campaign for the fifth year, putting 5 million kids’ books inside boxes of Cheerios cereal.

  • P&I Postcripts

    WYNDHAM HOTEL GROUP: is rewarding members of its…THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: has debuted a…COMDATA CORP.: a company that offers…LOYALTY LAB: San Francisco, has hired…

  • Court TV Brings Murder to Viewers in New Campaign

    Court TV is invoking a bit of murder mayhem under a new marketing campaign that seeds mysterious messages to unsuspecting consumers.

  • Huge Popularity of MyCoke Rewards Pushes Extension of Program

    MyCoke Rewards has extended the expiration date for the program due to its overwhelming popularity.

  • Wikipedia Gets Bad Press

    Antivirus vendor Sophos published a notice last Friday indicating that malicious code was being spread by way of the German version of Wikipedia. The code was found in links to a fix on the page for the “Lovesan/MSBlast…

  • MySpace Heads to Japan, Korean Portal Courting Google

    According to the Nihon Keizai Shimbun, a Japanese business newspaper, News Corp. and Japanese technology giant Softbank Corp. will participate in a 50-50 joint venture to launch MySpace Japan, which hopes to be the Godzilla to…

  • Zango Settles for $3 Million

    Last Friday, the Federal Trade Commission announced that Zango Inc., an Internet adware company, had agreed to pay a $3 million settlement to the U.S. government in response to assertions that it had covertly installed pop-up ad…

  • Online Video Ads Growing, but Will They Get Smarter?

    Advertising in the realm of online videos has become a popular and important topic that has been highlighted with Google’s recent YouTube deal. There are those who foresee more clouds than sunshine in this medium’s future (Mark…